1 or 2 Bay NAS-medo

From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)20 Oct 2020 18:39
To: ANT_THOMAS 19 of 41
Preload the drive before you stick it in the box?
From: koswix21 Oct 2020 19:01
To: ANT_THOMAS 20 of 41
Shouldn't need any more than that for usb2.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)21 Oct 2020 23:21
To: koswix 21 of 41
 :-(
From: ANT_THOMAS22 Oct 2020 08:26
To: koswix 22 of 41
DIFFERENT NAS :C
From: william (WILLIAMA)22 Oct 2020 13:00
To: ANT_THOMAS 23 of 41
Does it support some sort of ethernet over USB whachumacallit? Or can it be connected directly to your router? It's got USB3.
From: ANT_THOMAS22 Oct 2020 13:11
To: william (WILLIAMA) 24 of 41
Possibly, worth a look. Though think the USB3 may be for connecting it to a computer as an external drive, but to be honest no idea since it's an odd little device.

Good news, it's in the UK at Atherstone RDC, hopefully arrive soon enough.
From: Dave!!22 Oct 2020 16:50
To: ANT_THOMAS 25 of 41
Are you sure it's only 100Mb? I can't see anything that says otherwise, and a YouTube vid that seems to discuss that NAS says it is Gigabit Ethernet.
From: ANT_THOMAS22 Oct 2020 17:04
To: Dave!! 26 of 41
Not sure about anything with this device to be honest!
I will find out when it arrives and I'll give it a thorough review, then probably brick it installing Open-WRT.
From: ANT_THOMAS23 Oct 2020 08:25
To: ALL27 of 41
Been stung for customs. That adds £13.58 to the total (£8 handing fee!!).

Anyone else seen an increase in customs charges lately on stuff from China?

I've had many very expensive items slip through without checks or charges in the past. Lately I've had a couple of relatively cheap things (<£50) get charges added.

Not sure if these Chinese sellers have started declaring things correctly and not as £2 and a gift!
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)23 Oct 2020 10:42
To: ANT_THOMAS 28 of 41
We got a $25 web cam shipped to Ca, no added charge. It did take ~3-months.
From: ANT_THOMAS23 Oct 2020 12:34
To: ALL29 of 41
https://www.notebookcheck.net/ODROID-HC4-A-Raspberry-Pi-alternative-that-doubles-as-a-dual-NAS.498839.0.html

Interesting. Rather it be a unit without a drive sticking out of the top, but could put it in a box I guess!
From: ANT_THOMAS28 Oct 2020 09:55
To: ALL30 of 41
Well it's arrived, and it's a fairly well built unit.
US power supply though.

One large issue, ethernet doesn't seem to be working :@
Wifi does, but don't want to risk installing openwrt if ethernet is screwed.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)28 Oct 2020 11:09
To: ANT_THOMAS 31 of 41
Same model #, not sure if it's the same device (video shows attempting to connect via mobile app):

From: ANT_THOMAS28 Oct 2020 15:51
To: ALL32 of 41
WiFi was working fine.
Device is now bricked after I tried to install OpenWRT :'D
I'll have to wait until I'm near my soldering iron to attach a serial adapter and sort it out.
EDITED: 28 Oct 2020 15:51 by ANT_THOMAS
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)28 Oct 2020 15:56
To: ANT_THOMAS 33 of 41
Had you got the ethernet working, or did you decide to chance it?
From: ANT_THOMAS28 Oct 2020 17:05
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 34 of 41
Chanced it. Like the fool I am.
Confident I'll be able to at least return it to the state I got it in though. Maybe. We'll see. Already created a dispute on aliexpress since it wasn't functioning right at the start.
From: ANT_THOMAS31 Oct 2020 14:56
To: ALL35 of 41
Currently trying to get a refund for the device and using it as a USB drive with a RPi 2 as the USB bit seems to run separately from the network side of things.

I've unsurprisingly come to the conclusion that it isn't the 90s and I can't cope with 100mbit transfer speeds.

I think a RPi 4 instead will be what I end up going for. Gigabit network and USB 3. May as well just order one now.
From: ANT_THOMAS 4 Nov 2020 14:19
To: ALL36 of 41
Pi4 arrived. Swapped the microSD from the Pi2 to the Pi4 and it booted perfectly first time.
Gigabit and USB3 speeds. Much better.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 4 Nov 2020 19:14
To: ANT_THOMAS 37 of 41
Good stuff. Any news on getting the brick refunded?
From: ANT_THOMAS28 Nov 2020 11:29
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 38 of 41
Got a partial refund. Appealed it. Not heard anything back otherwise.